Kaden Leeper began this petition to ODFW Policy Evaluation Board
Among the most threatened fish in The United States and Canada requires your aid! Due to overfishing and their incorrect status as a “garbage fish” in the early 20th century, bull trout now occupy less than 20% of their historic variety. Yet Lake Billy Chinook in Central Oregon is among last 2 bodies of water in the U.S.A. where they can be captured and collected.
Because 1998, bull trout have actually been noted as “threatened” as part of the Endangered Types Act, and are greatly secured by water quality requirements in addition to other environmental management laws. These ancient char are just discovered in a number of states in United States: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and the Jarbridge River in Northern Nevada. In Montana and Washington, the targeting of this types by angler is prohibited. In Idaho and nearly all of Oregon they can be targeted, however need to be launched right away unhurt.
Nevertheless, in Lake Billy Chinook, one bull trout per individual, daily is enabled to be collected. Starving Horse Tank in Montana is the just other location I have actually discovered that likewise permits this practice, yet their policies mention that anglers might just keep 2 bull trout captured throughout a fiscal year. That exact same angler might concern Billy Chinook and capture and eliminate 365 in the exact same quantity of time! How can it perhaps be legal to eliminate a threatened types? This sort of practice is what cause them being put on the ESA in the very first location! If it holds true that this practice is okay since there is a prospering population in Billy Chinook, as I was informed by ODFW representative Jerry George, why not let them prosper?! Numerous researchers and biologists studying these stunning fish think that we will see their termination in our life time. It is my belief that they ought to be provided an opportunity to replicate and broaden their variety continuous.
This is a subject dear to my heart, and myself and the bull trout of the world would like your assistance!
Kaden Leeper
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